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Dumb question, what is SOTA implant?

js2 2y ago
I don't know either but perhaps "state of the art."
reaperman 2y ago
SOTA = “State of the art” “Implant” would be like any remotely installable persistent exploit that grants access to an attacker over a period of time. Also, I’m pretty luddite when it comes to highly-hyped AI stuff, (in spite of my income being heavily tied to developing AI models) but I have found ChatGPT to be shockingly good at explaining super niche terminology and even jokes. So I do recommend people feel comfortable turning to that if they ever feel uncomfortable asking “dumb” questions publicly.
- throwup238 2y ago
  @simonw made a custom GPT called the dejargonizer just for that purpose: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-3V1JcLD92-dejargonizer https://chatgpt.com/g/g-3V1JcLD92-dejargonizer
- pockmarked19 2y ago
  Or you could just Google it. [0] That's right. People can just Google things. [0] https://i.imgur.com/1Yx0m1U.png https://i.imgur.com/1Yx0m1U.png
  - cylemons 2y ago
    I googled "SOTA implant" and got something totally different.
  - gambiting 2y ago
    Yeah except Google is just so often wrong or pushing crappy SEO results that I honestly think it's worthless nowadays.
  - maeil 2y ago
    Bit of a tangent, but.. Google has been going down hill for many years but since the December update a few weeks ago it has genuinely become atrocious. In their quest to combat AI slop (good idea), they've gone and made domain authority so much more important than the content, that now when you search for A B C, you get 20 pages from very "authoritive" sites that are about A, are slighyly about B and don't even mention C. This is despite plenty of great pages about A B C existing and serving the content we're looking for - we just never get to see them because the places they're hosted on aren't "authoritive" enough. Before, you'd get 5 pages, 1 of which likely had what you were looking for, and maybe 1-2 were AI slop. Now zero of them are what you're looking for, but at least we no longer have the (generally very obvious) slop? Brilliant improvement for the users.. The reason behind this is pretty obvious: most AI slop that had been ranking well likely had 0 ad spend, meanwhile the "authoritive" sites tend to have high ad spend. Ads was seeing numbers go down and unhappy customers, and they run the company.
    - layer8 2y ago
      Using verbatim search generally improves the results.
      - maeil 2y ago
        When possible, sure, but this is often not viable. Just to give an example, looking for information on a local performance or exhibition. I can go and dubquote the name of it, but that still gives me 20 "authoritive" websites with vague info on last year's edition, not the few smaller local blogs that have info on this year's edition. Even if I add e.g. "2024". This got far worse since the December update, and many times there's no reasonable way to craft an arcane search query that fixes it.
        layer8 2y ago
        I see. There’s also “after:2023”, but that only works if the pages with last year’s info don’t appear newer to Google. Personally I haven’t run into the issue you describe yet to a degree that I would have noticed, but we also may have different use cases for googling. Conversely I rather have the issue for certain search terms that Google shows me a page of shopping results before getting to the “authoritive” websites.
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tptacek 2y ago
An "implant" is like a rootkit; it's all the things you do with a compromise once your exploit chain pays off, and threat actors generally have standardized implant stacks. "SOTA" is just an abbreviation for "state of the art".

js2 2y ago

I don't know either but perhaps "state of the art."

SOTA = “State of the art” “Implant” would be like any remotely installable persistent exploit that grants access to an attacker over a period of time. Also, I’m pretty luddite when it comes to highly-hyped AI stuff, (in spite of my income being heavily tied to developing AI models) but I have found ChatGPT to be shockingly good at explaining super niche terminology and even jokes. So I do recommend people feel comfortable turning to that if they ever feel uncomfortable asking “dumb” questions publicly.

throwup238 2y ago
@simonw made a custom GPT called the dejargonizer just for that purpose: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-3V1JcLD92-dejargonizer https://chatgpt.com/g/g-3V1JcLD92-dejargonizer
pockmarked19 2y ago
Or you could just Google it. [0] That's right. People can just Google things. [0] https://i.imgur.com/1Yx0m1U.png https://i.imgur.com/1Yx0m1U.png
- cylemons 2y ago
  I googled "SOTA implant" and got something totally different.
- gambiting 2y ago
  Yeah except Google is just so often wrong or pushing crappy SEO results that I honestly think it's worthless nowadays.
- maeil 2y ago
  Bit of a tangent, but.. Google has been going down hill for many years but since the December update a few weeks ago it has genuinely become atrocious. In their quest to combat AI slop (good idea), they've gone and made domain authority so much more important than the content, that now when you search for A B C, you get 20 pages from very "authoritive" sites that are about A, are slighyly about B and don't even mention C. This is despite plenty of great pages about A B C existing and serving the content we're looking for - we just never get to see them because the places they're hosted on aren't "authoritive" enough. Before, you'd get 5 pages, 1 of which likely had what you were looking for, and maybe 1-2 were AI slop. Now zero of them are what you're looking for, but at least we no longer have the (generally very obvious) slop? Brilliant improvement for the users.. The reason behind this is pretty obvious: most AI slop that had been ranking well likely had 0 ad spend, meanwhile the "authoritive" sites tend to have high ad spend. Ads was seeing numbers go down and unhappy customers, and they run the company.
  - layer8 2y ago
    Using verbatim search generally improves the results.
    - maeil 2y ago
      When possible, sure, but this is often not viable. Just to give an example, looking for information on a local performance or exhibition. I can go and dubquote the name of it, but that still gives me 20 "authoritive" websites with vague info on last year's edition, not the few smaller local blogs that have info on this year's edition. Even if I add e.g. "2024". This got far worse since the December update, and many times there's no reasonable way to craft an arcane search query that fixes it.
      - layer8 2y ago
        I see. There’s also “after:2023”, but that only works if the pages with last year’s info don’t appear newer to Google. Personally I haven’t run into the issue you describe yet to a degree that I would have noticed, but we also may have different use cases for googling. Conversely I rather have the issue for certain search terms that Google shows me a page of shopping results before getting to the “authoritive” websites.

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tptacek 2y ago

An "implant" is like a rootkit; it's all the things you do with a compromise once your exploit chain pays off, and threat actors generally have standardized implant stacks. "SOTA" is just an abbreviation for "state of the art".